HUMA 1170 Study Guide - Final Guide: The Modern Age, Baroque Architecture, Anachronism
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Modernity can be defined as a historio-cultural formation. The age of revolution and the citizen. Postwar redefinitions of modernity and western civilization. Essentialist modes of defining modernity and the modern age. They are often sustained through elimination, reduction, anachronism and rhetoric. They allure of these types of strategies: they are predicated upon a knowable world view, offer classifications and definitions, and they often sustain. The negative aspects of these kinds of strategies; Modernity can be defined by its concern for/approbation of/ advocacy of. A distinction between the objective and subjective: science and art, for freedom of speech and expression example. Modernity can be defined by its common, composite heritage. The culture area argument: historical places that exemplify modernity at a given time. Imagined community : participation in the project of modernity. Often expressed through metaphors: organic and mechanistic. Can also be regarded as a macro-regional narrative or the common thread shared by multiple regions.
